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NaNoWriMo 2010 That Went Kaphooey

December 30, 2010 by · Comments Off
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About a week late into NaNoWriMo, I decided to do a flash story collection that consisted of 100 flash stories of 500 words each. How hard was it to write four 500-word flash story per day for a month? Turns out that writing is the easy part if I had the idea for a flash [...]

A NaNoWriMo Flash Short Story Collection

November 3, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Last year I had planned on taking up the 2010 National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) competition by completing the remaining 50,000 words for my second novel (1/3 done at 25,000 words) this month. I also expected revising my first novel to be done by now, which didn’t happen since editing a novel-length manuscript is really, really [...]

Hitting A Brick Wall In Revising The Novel

October 27, 2010 by · Comments Off
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October was a lousy month. I blame the flu shot that I got last month for making me feel lousy and giving me a serious case of the blahs. I didn’t feel like editing, revising or writing for most of the month. It wasn’t writer’s block per se. It was more like that I lacked [...]

Letting Short Stories Lie Fallow

September 1, 2010 by · Comments Off
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This summer I took a break from the boring admin tasks of keeping 35+ short stories in circulation by letting them lay fallow after coming back with rejection slips to focus my time on revising my first novel. My tracking spreadsheet turned red over the last three months. Only a few recent short stories that [...]

Ye Olde Short Story Collection

July 21, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Last week I got notification that my short story collection wasn’t a winner in the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series. A disappointment but not the end of the world. I knew it was a long shot. The winner was “Destroy All Monsters” by Greg Hrbek, who has an impressive literary resume that makes me [...]